human interest
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How to Stop Being a Financial Procrastinator
Do you chronically put off mundane financial tasks like tracking expenses, paying bills, and filing taxes? Does even checking your bank account balance fill you with dread? If so, you may be a financial procrastinator. Sure, nobody loves paying their bills. But the costs of financial procrastination can really add up. Missed payments lead to…
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Try Playing NYT Connections on Paper
When you’re playing the New York Times’s Connections game, it’s important not to submit your guesses too soon. You may think that you’ve spotted four candies, or four things found on trees, but the game is trying to trick you. One of those candies may be an ambiguous word, like SUCKER, that belongs in a…
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The Best Ways to Annotate When Reading
Annotating your textbooks or other study materials is a great way to help you retain what they’re saying—it forces you to read critically and pay attention. Unfortunately, if you don’t do it right, you’re not going to get as many benefits as you should. Here are the right (and wrong) ways to annotate. Do use…
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The Best Ways to Use ‘Association’ to Remember What You Study
Of all the study tips out there, from those that enhance reading comprehension to those that improve retention, the one I use the most is association: Making up little personal memory devices helps me with everything from test-taking to completing daily work tasks. Here are some of the easiest ways to use association when you’re…